câmbio

• cambio (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese cambio, either directly from Late Latin cambium (“change”) or deverbal of cambiar (cf. Portuguese escambo), from Latin cambiāre (“to change”) , from a Celtic language, from Proto-Celtic *kamb- (“crooked; bent”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱamb-, *(s)kamb- (“bent”).

• Hyphenation: câm‧bi‧o

câmbio m (plural câmbios)

1. exchange:
   1. act of exchanging or swapping; swap

      Synonyms: intercâmbio, permuta, troca

   2. (uncountable, economics, finance) currency exchange

      exchange rate

      taxa de câmbio

2. transformation (act of transforming or being transformed)

   Synonyms: alteração, cambiação, cambiagem, cambiamento, mudança, mutação, transformação

3. commutation (substitution of one thing for another)

   Synonyms: comutação, substituição

4. walkie-talkie (portable, bi-directional radio transceiver)

   Synonyms: walkie-talkie, rádio

5. (economics, finance) agio

   Synonyms: ágio, prêmio

6. (rare) change (the process of becoming different)

   Synonym: mudança

7. (automotive) transmission (assembly of gears in an motorcar)

   Synonyms: marcha, transmissão

8. (botany) cambium (layer of cells responsible for secondary growth of roots and stems)

câmbio

1. (procedure word, military) over (end of sentence, ready to receive reply)

• câmbio, desligo

• “câmbio” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “câmbio” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “câmbio” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “câmbio” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.